Five Facts About Application Usage on Enterprise Networks

in Australia and New Zealand

Application Usage and Risk Report December 2011

Average number of social networking applications per organization?

A total of 34 different social networking applications were found in 86% of the 21 participating organizations with an

average of 20 found on each network.

20

Which application is used more heavily?

Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed in the 21 participating ANZ organizations, Tumblr

is used more heavily than Facebook.

Facebook takes a Tumblr. This NYC-based micro-blogging site is used more heavily in ANZ than any other social

networking application. ANZ is the only geography where Tumblr was used so heavily and it highlights the fact that where

the application is developed has little bearing on where it is popular.

Average number of browser-based filesharing applications per organization?

A total of 34 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 81% of the 21 participating

organizations with an average of 12 in each.

12

Browser-based filesharing use cases: work or entertainment. Both uses have a common set of business

and security risks that organizations must address.

The number of applications using Port 80 (tcp/80) only?

The number of applications that ONLY use Port 80 is 157 or 28% of the 566 applications found in the participating ANZ

organizations.

157

Percentage of total bandwidth consumed by applications not using tcp/80?

67% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 219 (39% of 566) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

67%

Port 80 only security is shortsighted. The common perception is that Port 80 (tcp/80) is where all the traffic and all

the problems are. A port 80 emphasis is an absolute requirement; but too much focus is shortsighted.

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